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AND if you had any doubts about how bonkers I am: - turtle-graphics1.jpg turtle-graphics2.jpg turtle-graphics3.jpg - However 'clever' my re-creation of the BBC BASIC turtle graphics stuff in LiveCode may be it brings a child no nearer to computer programming than anything else that Seymour Papert ev...

environments like Scratch actually remove a large part of the abstract reasoning Yes, they do . . . but the problem with that is that a child may become extremely adept at getting things done with Scratch, but is then unable to make the leap (and it is a conceptual leap) from that to the 'other' wa...

This: - on mouseUp export snapshot from rectangle "100,52,501,349" of window 473 to file "Kali1.gif" as GIF export snapshot from rectangle "100,52,501,349" of window 473 to file "Kali1.jpg" as JPEG export snapshot from rectangle "100,52,501,349" of window 473 to file "Kali1.png" as PNG end mouseUp -...

OK: I got out my bucket and spade (LC 9.6.5 RC-1) and . . . - SShot 2021-09-26 at 11.21.29.jpg - This uses an extremely pedestrian code, but I thought I would just check to see if that would muck up a GIF export: - on mouseUp export snapshot from img "Kali" to file "Kali.gif" as GIF export snapshot ...

I have no objection to people using Scratch, and I use Turtle Graphics in my school to teach a bit of sequencing (children are NOT taught at school that the horse should be in front of the cart). What I do object to are the claims made about Scratch; to me at least they seem about as specious as sta...

That makes some sort of sense, because when I tell a stack:
it bungs it somewhere down the bottom, but not at the bottom of the screen.

is it based in any kind of evidence? Personal experience with about 75 children who, having worked with Scratch found both LiveCode and BBC BASIC significantly more difficult to learn than those children who had not had contact with Scratch. I don't feel 'unbelievably groovy' at being accused of pu...

2. instant web access

That is NOT true, both Scratch and SNAP have offline versions: you just need a web-browser.

No, I have a 3-monitor set up, but I always use LiveCode on my main, central monitor.

And this has only happened in the last 3 days.

The point i was trying to make is that the inverse is also true Indeed. Various ex-summer course kids of mine, having got reasonably far with LiveCode told me 2 things when they started High School C# classes: 1. The theoretical stuff (conditional loops, switch statements, and so on) were VERY EASY...

With LC 9.6.4 my revMenuBar appears 28 pixels lower than it should . . . [MacOS 12 beta 7] . . . typing this into the MessageBox set the top of stack "revMenuBar" to 24 followed by save stack "revMenuBar" is pointless as, on a relaunch of LiveCode the revMenuBar stack has slipped again.

took me a long time to actually 'get' LC This was because you were not a 'virgin'. In my Summer classes each year 'virgins' "get" LIveCode straight away and unquestioningly. I believe this is because the use of the container metaphor is blatant in LiveCode. https://philosophyandpsychology.wordpress...

Indeed, but downloads failing; obviously a "bottleneck" in the pipeline: I'll try again tomorrow.

Thank you very much indeed: downloaded everything and installed without a hitch.

Chop the GIF up into its constituent frames: you can
probably reduce them to less than 3 MB, then animate
them another way.

Use sine and cosine to populate a list field [let's call it "SHOPPING"] with locations of points on the circumference of a circle. Set a graphic object's points to the lines of the list field. Set up a circular graphic [let's call it "BALL"] containing this sort of script: on mouseDown drag me end m...